Whitfield, Derbyshire
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|static_image =Glossop4787ec.JPG
|static_image_width =250px
|static_image_caption=Whitfield
|coordinates = {{coord|53.441|-1.952|display=inline,title}}
|map_type = Derbyshire
|official_name = Whitfield
|population =
|shire_district = High Peak
| shire_county = Derbyshire
|region = East Midlands
|constituency_westminster = High Peak
|post_town = GLOSSOP
|postcode_district = SK13
|postcode_area = SK
|dial_code =
|os_grid_reference = SK034938
}}
Whitfield is a hamlet and former parish in Derbyshire, England. It is half a mile (1km) south of Glossop Town Hall, south of Glossop Brook between Bray Clough and Hurst Brook.{{cite web |title= Topographic Map of Glossop SK13, UK |url= https://elevation.maplogs.com/poi/glossop_sk13_uk.140614.html |publisher= Worldwide Elevation Map Finder |access-date= 1 May 2023}} Whitfield was one of the original townships in the ancient Parish of Glossop. Up to the latter part of the 18th century the hamlet was devoted mostly to agriculture with an area of 2,608 statute acres.{{cite web | url= https://glossopheritage.co.uk/ghtarchive/whitham/ | title=The Hamlet of Whitfield by Robert Hamnett }}
Name
The name was recorded as Witfeld in the Domesday Book of 1086 A.D.{{cite web |title= WHITFIELD |publisher=Open Domesday |url= https://opendomesday.org/place/SK0393/whitfield/ |access-date= 2 April 2023}} The Survey of English Place-Names records it as Witfeld (1086), Whitefeld (1226) and Wytfeld (1282){{cite web |title= Survey of English Place-Names: Whitfield Ho |publisher= University of Nottingham |url= http://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/Derbyshire/Glossop/53284ccbb47fc4095c0009fa-Whitfield+Ho |access-date= 2 April 2023}}
The name element wit is from Old English wiht ("weight") which itself is derived from Latin vectis ("lever").{{sfn|Clark Hall|1916|pp=740-741}} The name element feld is from Old English feld ("field").
History
The Manor of Whitfield was conveyed in 1330 to John Foljambe. Though held with the manor of Glossop, the land in Whitfield was mostly not part of the Norfolk estate unlike most of the manor of Glossop. When it was enclosed by act of parliament in 1810 it was recorded as being {{convert|1577|acre|km2}}. Included in Whitfield are the villages of Charlestown and Littlemoor.
The Turnlee Paper factory was in Littlemoor. St James, Littlemoor, was consecrated in 1845{{cite web |url=https://churchdb.gukutils.org.uk/DBY885.php |title=St James's Church, Whitfield, Glossop |website=Places of Worship Database |access-date=13 June 2022}} and is built in the Early English style, with tower and {{convert|114|ft|m|0|adj=on}} spire. There is a Methodist Chapel at Whitfield; the Wesleyan Reformers and Independent Calvinists had chapels at Littlemoor.{{cite web|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Glossop/White1857.html|title=Glossop, Derbyshire:White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857|last=Wilson|first=Neil|date=2003|access-date=2008-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425121610/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Glossop/White1857.html|archive-date=2009-04-25}}
When Glossop expanded, and the Howardtown Mills were constructed, Whitfield was subsumed into the new town. Power looms were introduced into these mills in 1825. In 1835 Whitfield church was extended to take the increased congregation, and a Church of England primary school was built in 1848; an infant school was added by Anne Kershaw Wood in 1913.{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Peggy|title=Annals of Glossop|publisher=Glossop Heritage Centre|location=Glossop, Derbyshire|date=December 1999|pages=11, 15}}
See also
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last1= Morris |first1= Mel |title= Whitfield Conservation Area – Character Appraisal |date= 2014 |publisher= High Peak Borough Council
|url= https://www.highpeak.gov.uk/media/234/Whitfield-character-appraisal-adopted-February-2014/pdf/Whitfield_Appraisal_Jan_2014_with_maps.pdf?m=1484758858983
|access-date= 1 May 2023 }}
- {{cite book |last1= Clark Hall |first1= John Richard |author-link= John Richard Clark Hall |title= A Concise Anglo−Saxon Dictionary, Second Edition
|date= 1916 |publisher= The Macmillan Company }}
- {{cite map |editor-first=John |editor-last=Levin |year= 1896 |publisher= British History Online |title='OS Map name 002/SE', in Map of Derbyshire (Southampton, 1882-1896) |url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/os-1-to-10560/derbyshire/002/se |access-date= 1 May 2023 }}
Category:Towns and villages of the Peak District